Mweb uncapped monotoring.

[Elimentals]

Can any uncapped SP give me a breakdown of sites visited from my account or is this against ICT laws?

Need to help a friend that has kids and want to know if MWEB(His current ISP) or others, has some monitoring service to tell him what sites they went to?

 

[Pada]

Elimentals:
What you can do is to go and register an OpenDNS account for free and setup categories in such a way that the kids can only access suitable content for their age

I think you can also track the different domains that everyone visits on that account via OpenDNS.

I once had to do this to prevent my neighbour from watching porn while I'm trying to play games because he was eating up all my bandwidth.

 

[Elimentals]

Elimentals:
What you can do is to go and register an OpenDNS account for free and setup categories in such a way that the kids can only access suitable content for their age

I think you can also track the different domains that everyone visits on that account via OpenDNS.

I once had to do this to prevent my neighbour from watching porn while I'm trying to play games because he was eating up all my bandwidth.

Thanx, I am aware of the OpenDNS solution, problem is his kid is doing Comp at school and would most probably know how to use alternative DNS servers like Google public DNS if not trying to use proxies hence the question to take it to ISP level, even if its just for monitor streaming.

I know we do it for some of out Clients in NZ so I would like to know if its possible here in SA.

 

[Pada]

Just setup the firewall on the ADSL modem that it blocks all traffic on UDP port 53, except for the traffic going to the OpenDNS servers.
On my setup I actually forced all the DNS queries to go to OpenDNS, even if you do 'nslookup www.google.co.za 8.8.8.8' - but not everyone has a MikroTik/decent router to do that.

Otherwise if he does not block the sites, but only set OpenDNS as the default DNS server, then his kids most likely won't bother playing with alternative DNS servers - allowing him to monitor what sites they're accessing.

 

[Elimentals]

Just setup the firewall on the ADSL modem that it blocks all traffic on UDP port 53, except for the traffic going to the OpenDNS servers.
On my setup I actually forced all the DNS queries to go to OpenDNS, even if you do 'nslookup www.google.co.za 8.8.8.8' - but not everyone has a MikroTik/decent router to do that.

Otherwise if he does not block the sites, but only set OpenDNS as the default DNS server, then his kids most likely won't bother playing with alternative DNS servers - allowing him to monitor what sites they're accessing.

Thanx for your help, as mentioned before I just wanted to know if MWEB can do this.

If not then I would follow the smoothwall + squid/dansgaurdian route.

Its just I dont wanna advise someone to go buy a PC if it could have been done with a simple request to your dsl provider or to use an account with one that does the monitoring for you.

Oh and we dont wanna block, just monitor. ie: see what sites and when. Problem is kid is allowed to surf whatever, just they wanna make sure he studies during block days.

 

[Pada]

No. I just looked again at my Mweb control panel and I can't see anything related to monitoring/child-safety.

You can always contact MWEB Guy regarding this.

I'd guess that it should be legal for the ISP's to track what sites you visit, but of course not what content you are viewing. They can do this buy simply monitoring their DNS servers' requests from your IP Address.

 

[Elimentals]

No. I just looked again at my Mweb control panel and I can't see anything related to monitoring/child-safety.

You can always contact MWEB Guy regarding this.

I'd guess that it should be legal for the ISP's to track what sites you visit, but of course not what content you are viewing. They can do this buy simply monitoring their DNS servers' requests from your IP Address.

Thanx.

PS: We do this thanx to a transparent proxy so even if people use other dns servers we can still track em.
I dont know if Mweb use proxy's at all. still would be interesting to know if they could give out lists of sites visited on certain days.

 

[rrh]

Oh and we dont wanna block, just monitor. ie: see what sites and when. Problem is kid is allowed to surf whatever, just they wanna make sure he studies during block days.

My Billion router includes the ability to set up times slots, and to include these in managing what can be done when.

 

[Yuu]

Best method and quickest i found is to setup Sync in Firefox. Between 2 pcs, it will update history of sites visited aswell any other info you want it to sync.

You will always know what sites are visited without installing any kind of complicated software .

Let me know if this is a worthwhile solution for you.

For others who want more info, read up here

I use this to keep my 2x desktops in sync especially for passwords .

 

[Elimentals]

My Billion router includes the ability to set up times slots, and to include these in managing what can be done when.

counts to 10.

Its not about bypasses or workarounds we know how to do this I am a Snr Linux Sys admin so its not like I have no clue, oh and completely blocking a 14+ year old kid from the internet while studying is a crap idea, at least give em access to http://www.khanacademy.org/ if you can.

Anyway I think I got my answer, ie: Mweb can not monitor and give us the data so we have to do it ourselves <--- That is all I wanted at the end of the day, but I guess some people can not read.